The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-10

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Coon HOUSEKEEPING, Springfield, Mass,
for August o. tells of the History, Property
and Powers of Coffee" How to Make lee
cream Of Different Flavors;" New Ways
OF Serving Cucumbers-How they May be
Cooked in Different Ways to Make Very
Tempting Dishes;" Contagiousness Of
Consumption; " Hints on Checking off the
Laundry" " How to Easily Keep in Store
what We Would Like II Company should
Pop in at the Eleventh Hour (" what
Trained Nurse has to say about Nursing az
Profession" How to Make All Kinds of
Jellies;" Hints on Marketing for Mutton
and Pork; How to Rid House of Black
Ants" " How to Cook Cracked Wheat"
"How, to Make Yellow sponge-cake;' " How
to Make Pepper Pot; :" Cooking Rice in
Southern Style;" Glow to Make Cheap
Coal-sifter; What We must do to Live a
Hundred Years." "What to Buy-when to
Valuable Hints on Bringing Up Children"
Why Hot Tea is More Wholesome than
Iced Tea; " How to Grapple with the
Carpet-bug; F" What Glass of People can
be Greatly Benefited by the Use of Lemons"
etc, etc. 1t also contains very interest
all bookstores and news-stands at ten cents ;
$3.50 year.
WIDE AWAKE for August blooms with
stories, poems and illustrations of summer.
expressing well the charms of the season in
out-of-door life. The frontispiece shows
how pleasant croquet may be when played
by youth and maiden under the shade Of
wide-spreading tree. An article by Ell
bridge S. Brooks considers other " Summer
Sports" and with review of their history
and chief features discusses quoits, tennis
canoeing, Badminton and baseball. An IL
Illustrated paper by Margaret Sidney takes
the reader into the Barrett house and other
historical places of the highways and by
ways of Concord" so that summer visitors
may enjoy drive along the famous st reefs.
" How Ned Scaled Mount Washington " is
story OF summer adventure by Mary
Rebecca Hart which young boys would not
enjoy initiating, as the hero climbed the
mountain by the trestle-work and spent the
night alone on the top. The opening story
by Hugh Mitchell, A Dark Nights Work ;"
describes graphically unique manner of
taking up a claim on the Dakota prairies.
| The serials all progress in even interest.
The successful women of Mrs. Bottoms serial
are the Wheelers of " Associated Artists T"
| fame. Summer language is spoken through
the poems and fanciful illustrations. d.
Lothrop & Co., publishers.
ST. NICHOLAS for August opens with a
beautiful frontspiece, by Mary HalloclI
Foote, illustrating some bright verses by
Edith NJ. Thomas, entitled " Invitation to
| Echo" and the illustrator turns author a
! little farther on in a charming sketch of
Rocky Mountain life, called " An Idaho
Picnic" with more pictures in her charac-
teristic style. Another artist tells his own
! story with pen as well as pencil in this num-
ber-George Wharton Edwards, who writes
and draws pictures for 4" The Figure-head of
the James Starbuck," a capital sea story
told ashore. Nora Perry contributes girls
story that has equal application to boys
and contains healthful lesson for some
teachers as well as all scholars. The
editor of YOUTHS Companion gives us pleas.
ant sketch of the " Autocrat of the Break
fast Table," George j. Manson contributes
his views on journalism to the boys who
are getting ready for business" and as il
is the authors own profession he sees it in
no roseate hue. G. F. Holder tells " How
Some Animals Become Extinct" "a Great
Battle in a Forest !" is the title given to
General Adam Badeau's account of the
great battle and confederate victory al
Charlottesville. Besides the attractions
already mentioned are the continued stories
and poems and pictures of the usual choice
variety. New York: The Century Com.
pany. Subscription price $500 a year.
ScRIBNER's MAGAZINE for August opens
with the fifth installment of the "Unpub
lished Letters of Thackeray," illustrated
with several Thackeray drawings. George
Hitchcock has contributed a delightful
article on "The Picturesque Quality o.
Holland" written strictly from painters
point of view. The selections from the
letters of Eliza Southgate Bovine, which
were begun in July under the title of "
Girls Life Eighty Years Ago." are con
cluded in this number. Professor n. S
Shaler of Harvard University contributes
another of his notable papers on scientific
subjects from popular view. The title /.
" The Instability of the Atmosphere" II
view of the great interest which the whole
subject of manuel training is now exciting
the article on " The Revival of Handicraft,
by Professor John f. Weir of the Yale Ar
School, is particularly timely and important
Arlo Bates, who is known to readers of fic
ton as the author of "A Wheel of Fire
and other stories, has in " Realism and the
Art of Fiction " reviewed at considerabl,
length the whole subject of the true theory
of fiction. The fiction includes a shor
story by T. r. Sullivan entitled " The Los
Rembrandt" II. II. Boyesen's two-par
story, "a Perilous Incognito," reaches
satisfactory conclusion. Harold Frederic.
serial, Seths Brothers. Wife," contains al
angry and passionate interview between
Isabel and Annie. There are six poems
showing wide range of fancy and imagin
alton. Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers
New York.